The Closest You'll Get To an Live Action Gundam Vs Godzilla Crossover

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2018)

I like Guillermo Del Toro; I think he has a good vision for fantastical tales that requires translating the imagination onto the screen. Despite it's obvious major flaws, Pacific Rim succeeds in delivering the visual spectacle of rampaging colossi. Quite good in fact, you can - if you wanted to - be charitable to film merely on the basis of the fight between Mechs and Monsters is so well done, that you'll forgive Pacific Rim for being cringey in many instances throughout the film.
To be fair, the story isn't bad. Travis Beachem wrote a straightforward and generic story of humankind's survival that is so transparently Anime inspired that the film could've done well - and perhaps even better - if it was made by Studio Ghibli. However, the script is bad and as I said, cringey a.f. and the acting is just as bad, that if there were more scenes with the human actors, the film would've been tarnished beyond repair. It is the level of acting that you'll find in Live Action TV productions of Ultraman and Black Masked Rider.
Thankfully, there wasn't too, too much of it and there are ample scenes where the Jaegers (them giant robots) were smashing Kaiju (them monsters), wreaking devastation in the sea as well as in the city. The Mechs themselves were impressive to look at, though there were some scenes that didn't just make sense (like why didn't they use the sword early on?) The Kaijus are by far the most interesting; with great biology and abilities that in all honesty, I wish it would have been thoroughly explored.
But all in all, I'm happy with what I saw.